7 Revelations From Fusion GPS Founder’s Senate Testimony

GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony is that he has no independent proof that the allegations made in the infamous Trump dossier are accurate

One of the biggest takeaways from Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony is that he has no independent proof that the allegations made in the infamous Trump dossier are accurate.

An extensive review of Simpson’s 312-page Aug. 22 interview transcript shows that his strongest evidence for believing the dossier’s accuracy is that he trusts Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the 35-page document.

“Chris, as I say, has a sterling reputation as a person who doesn’t exaggerate, doesn’t make things up, doesn’t sell baloney,” Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal, told Senate investigators in the interview.

But when pressed for independent evidence to support the dossier’s allegations, Simpson demurred. He also refused to discuss dossier sources or to say whether he had vetted any of them.

But that’s not the only conclusion to be drawn from Simpson’s testimony, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein against the wishes of her Republican colleagues.

Here are other major revelations from Simpson’s testimony.

FBI may have disclosed Russia investigation sources to Steele

Simpson suggested in his interview that Steele learned from the FBI in Sept. 2016 that the bureau had received information from inside the Trump campaign that corroborated some of the dossier’s allegations.

The revelation raises questions about why the FBI would have shared seemingly sensitive information about its sources with Steele, a former MI6 officer who now operates a private intelligence firm.

In his testimony, Simpson says Steele told him during a Sept. 2016 meeting with FBI agents that the FBI “had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source” and that they thought Steele “might be credible” because they had other intelligence from “a human source from inside the Trump organization.”

Simpson was cagey when asked whether Steele had received that information directly from the FBI, but he did not deny it.

“And did Mr. Steele tell you that the FBI had relayed this information to him?” Simpson was asked.

“He didn’t specifically say that,” said Simpson, adding that Steele “would say very generic things like I saw them, they asked me a lot of questions, sounds like they have another source or they have another source.”

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At the time of the Dossier, the Washington elite was sure Hillary would win. So why pay for the phony Dossier? The Clinton campaign paid millions of dollars, to Fusion GPS, for 35pages of Russian gossip, for which they paid Steele $160,000. The information could not be verified and Steele had not been in Russia for 25 years. The FBI and DOJ might have received the dossier from the Clinton Campaign and planned to obtain the FISA warrant to do evidence gathering to destroy Trump after the election. Then Trump won and the game changed abruptly.Comey had a long history with the Clinton’s he would have been a likely person to receive the dossier.